{"id":676383,"date":"2026-05-31T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676383\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:39:09","slug":"may-brings-a-rare-blue-moon-heres-what-to-know-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/676383\/","title":{"rendered":"May brings a rare blue moon. Here’s what to know about it."},"content":{"rendered":"

The celestial event occurs seven times every 19 years, or roughly every two or three years, according to EarthSky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sunday’s blue moon will reach its peak at 4:45 a.m. ET or 3:45 a.m. CT, before the sun rises.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The best time to see it rise will be at dusk on Saturday, for those in the U.S, when it will appear on the eastern horizon at sunset, glowing orange.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The event will also feature a micromoon, according to EarthSky<\/a>, which means it will be near its farthest point from Earth in its orbit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sunday’s blue moon is rare; the next of this kind won’t occur until Dec. 2028.<\/p>\n

The moon cycle follows eight lunar phases, and lasts 29.5 days, just one day shy of a typical month’s length.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Due to the shortened window, some months host two full moons, the second of which is called a “calendrical” blue moon, or what is more commonly known as a blue moon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There is another kind of blue moon, called a “seasonal” blue moon, which occurs when four full moons, rather than the usual three, appear within a three-month season. The third is the blue moon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The phrase “blue moon” does not refer to the moon’s actual color, but to the shorter blue wavelengths<\/a> that scatter off air molecules as the rising moon shines through Earth’s atmosphere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The effect, which includes longer red and orange wavelengths passing through more directly, is known as Rayleigh scattering and gives moonrises and sunsets their warm, glowing colors.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The celestial event occurs seven times every 19 years, or roughly every two or three years, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-676383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}